rec 2024-11-02 at BASSMÆSSAGE  in Leipzig

GHOST DUBS - LIVE AT 'BASSMÆSSAGE' IN LEIPZIG

The Dekmantel favourite kicks off 2025 in an exploratory mood.

Since her breakout in 2017, Thessa Thorsing has built an enviable CV: a debut release on Nous'klaer Audio, an album on Dekmantel and a residency at former Amsterdam clubbing institution De School. Over these years, she's honed a singular sound, navigating wild variations in tempo and mood that dance along the edges of techno, IDM and drum & bass (we could list many more, but you know the drill).

Her creative arc has seen her delve into ever more abstract concepts, such as 2024's ambient-leaning album, Strange Meridians, exploring the interplay between synthetic and natural textures through drumless experimentations. As she explained in her 2018 RA Breaking Through profile, "I just want to hear the weirdness in the music."

Thorsing's RA Podcast showcases exactly why she's one of the most  consistently adventurous names in dance music. Describing it as "a mix with a narrative," the former landscape architecture student flexes her ability to build sonic environments, beginning in a landscape more akin to a swamp than a club.

Across 90 minutes, she moves through numerous layered terrains, exploring everything from Skee Mask's lucid, beatless techno to the piercing acid of Mike Parker. Unfolding with a restless sense of curiosity, RA.970 captures an artist challenging the boundaries of electronic music, ever upward.

@upsammy

Read more at ra.co/podcast/970

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Woozy with EMA feat. DJ Wiggles - 03 April 2025

Mix 015 comes courtesy of Al Wootton, with an excerpt of his set at Zur Klappe last year!

The recording was sadly severed as our zoom recorder died (we forgot to charge the batteries), but we’re delighted to share with you what survived: 1 and a quarter hours of typically dubbed out, drum-centric goodness!

TTL Mix 015 - Al Wootton - TTL @ Zur Klappe - 12.04.25

Since 2012, Caldera has been creating a unique and personal blend of Techno and Bass music with a love for detail and a dedicated sound design that immerses listeners into imaginary worlds.
His experiments with drums and rhythms result in grooves that represent a new and fresh way of looking at dance music while exploring a deeper side of it and leaving bpm restrictions behind.


Caldera @ Kiosk Radio 24.06.2025

Slowfoam performed on the second day of #Mostra25 at Fabra i Coats.

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Madelyn Byrd (they/them, b. 1992) is an educator, musician, DJ, and worldbuilding practitioner based in Berlin. Their creative and educational work implements decolonial, hydrofeminist and queer ecology to investigate possibilia and the “sympoietics” of co-becoming to promote synergistic social transformation beyond human-centred perspectives. Byrd fosters a deeply collaborative, interdisciplinary spirit to deconstruct and reconstruct the perceptual realm, weaving field recording, intricate sound design, spoken word, and somatics. Madelyn holds a Masters in Neuroaesthetics from Goldsmiths, where they researched the impact of collaborative imagination on measures of connection and hope in social praxis art. They teach critical theory + music production courses on sonic worldbuilding with Soundial. They are a current resident in Zurich University of the Art’s School of Commons (SoC), 2025 with collaborator Lou Croff Blake to develop their project, Chimera.

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@slowfoam is Byrd’s all-encompassing, genre-defying music moniker. They create speculative post-human dialogues and para-worlds, sculpting a/biotic textures from electroacoustics, field recording, feedback, granulated synthesis, drones, and spoken word. Their playful sonic tapestries are spatially triggered and adapted to deep-listening environments, clubs, and everything in between. They have performed and toured extensively, including recent performances at Subbacultcha (NL), Cafe Oto (London), The Lab (San Francisco), Morse (Tokyo), and Morphine Raum (Berlin). Their discography has been published on Somewhere Press, Mappa, and Jungle Gym Records. Slowfoam is a former resident at Internet Public Radio, where they curated their monthly show, Our Tomorrow. Their work has yielded features on Bandcamp, Electronic Sound Mag, DJ Mag, First Impressions, Pitchfork, Boomkat, The Wire Magazine, and Futurism Restated.


Slowfoam @ Mostra 2025 🖤

Pessimist & Vega with Conrad pack - 06 August 2025

"a reverse puzzle: starting with structure, ending in disintegration."

welcome to the abstract sonic world of seoul-via-paris dj and producer k.o.p. 32. taking us a journey through the depths of the murky underworld, the hyper minimal session flips the switch between immersive, introspective sound design and grey area influences. 

drawing from his parisian roots and his current base in seoul, this diversity of influences lends itself to k.o.p. 32’s output. his productions lean towards meticulous drum grooves and textured atmospheres spanning across deep techno, halftime, drum & bass and freetek with releases across annulled, de rio, a-biotic, metaphore industrie, de rio and qilla records. i’m completely obsessed with his productions! they’re so deep and easy to get lost in. that feeling of being neither here nor there whilst you listen, away in another world. pyramid of knowledge is another alias of k.o.p. 32 and in 2021, he embarked on a new journey, launching his own label beyond the bridge which has released records from some of our other favourites including spekki webu and gi. well worth the dig through to get to know the world that k.o.p. 32 orbits in better as well as reading our interview below : ) 

interview: https://untitled909.substack.com/p/untitled-909-podcast-234-kop-32

@pyramidofknowledge

⋆˚࿔ untitled 909 podcast 234: k.o.p. 32 ⋆˚࿔

STARTING OFF THE 5 DAYS OF SPOOKY VIP WITH THIS CLASSIC BY @ad_dubstepper
HUGE SHOUTOUT TO HIM FOR LETTING ME VIP THIS BANGER AND ONE OF MY FAVORITE MOVIES! 

ORIGINAL: https://soundcloud.com/ad_dubstepper/ad-sinister-clip

AD - SINISTER (IVAN VIP) (CLIP)

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20251109

Booking: dubmusic@gmx.net 

Livedates:
30.11.25 London, UK
15.11.25 Berlin, German
14.11.25 Munich, Germany
08.11.25 Madrid, Spain
25.10.25 Manufaktur, Schorndorf, Germany
18.10.25 Valencia, Spain
10.10.25 Turin, Italy
04.10.25 Out Fest, Barreiro, Portugal
20.09.25  Philadelphia, Makin Time
02.06.25  Turin, Jazz is dead - Festival
24.05.25  Ostfildern, Eastphilly Fest
04.04.25  Brighton,The Mine
22.03.25  Berlin  Pressure at Gretchen
13.02.25  Bruessel, Pilar
11.02.25   Prague, Punctum 
08.02.25  Basel, Wurm
01.02.25  Leeds  SubDub 
18.01.25  Filmwinter Festival Stuttgart
14.12.24  Amsterdam
05.12.24  Stuttgart  Kulturbunker
16.11.24   Berlin        Pressure at Gretchen
03.11.24   Leipzig     Bssmssg
26.10.24  Cologne   674
10.10.24   Innsbruck  Heart of Noise

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Michael Fiedler, Musiker und Produzent aus Stuttgart, erkundet mit seinem neuen Projekt GHOST DUBS die düsteren Tiefen von Dub, Ambient und Noise, stochert dabei wild auf dem Grund herum und schaut was sich vom Boden löst.


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GHOST DUBS - "DAMAGED"
out now via Pressure Recordings
Bandcamp / 2xVinyl / Streaming

[…] “"If David Lynch had ever been driven to dub, it might well have sounded like this....an early contender for best of the year" –  Steve Barker / The Wire Magazine

[…] “Most of the action is happening on the edge of what the ear can hear […] air-compressing, room-shaking bassline bliss. Your neighbours won’t thank you, but your consciousness will.” – Electronic Sound Mag

[…] “Damaged is an absolute immersive triumph, a furnace-reduced, machine-tooled groove of hypnotic, ever evolving high-density inner ear-bliss.” – Mojo Mag

[…] “distills ambient dub into a wispy, wraithlike form. … Where Ghost Dubs stands out is in the intensity of his productions. Lots of people have tried their hand at this tradition, but few have achieved the heaviness, or the strangeness, of Ghost Dubs’ best work." – Pitchfork

[…] "Damaged is comfortable yet eerie, and it goes back and forth between dream and reality... Listening to the album gives the feeling of a near-death experience."  - Yuta Umegaya

[…]  “Record of the Week”  -   "As you might expect from a record released on The Bug’s Pressure label, this thing is weighty. It’s almost as if it has its own gravitational pull."  – The Quietus

[…]  "I have to admit that “Damaged” is something like the essence of Dub embodied. The distillation of 50 years of bass music."   – DubBlog.de


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GHOST DUBS - LIVE AT 'BASSMÆSSAGE' IN LEIPZIG

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